Barabona

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barabona, from 1,803 m² to 421,118 m² (42.11 ha, 104.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Barabona in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 21 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission for the construction of an agricultural shed consisting of feeding area with underground slatted slurry storage tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2660571

• 5 Oct 2023Conditional

  Planning Permission and Retention Permission for: a) Construction of an agricultural shed consisting of cubicles, straw bedded area & feeding area with underground slatted slurry storage tank; b) Construction of a calf rearing shed; c) Retention Permission of existing straw bedded calving shed; d) Retention Permission of 2 no. lean-to sheds consisting of cubicles and feeding area; e) Retention Permission of lean-to calf rearing shed; f) Retention Permission of geomembrane-lined slurry lagoon and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 15/08/2024 and revised notices received on 28/08/2024 which includes an Appropriate Assessment Screening Report and amendment to the site boundary*

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2360387

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Barabona.

Recorded monuments

• LH021-086 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a SW-facing slope. The parchmark in grass of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m N-S; c. 44m E-W) defined by a slight fosse or ditch (Wth c. 1m) is visible on Apple Maps (2018). It is cut by a relict ENE-WSW drain towards the edge at S, and the enclosure can also be seen faintly on OSI images (1995). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere, and it was also noted by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced image from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 June 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barabona.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Barabona.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Barabona with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Barabona · Bóthar an Bhainne

Area

1,183,651 m² (118.37 ha, 292.49 acres)

Civil parish

Monasterboice, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Monasterboice, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Monasterboice electoral division: 1,445 people in 491 households; 93% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Collon, Cordoogan, Monasterboice, Rathdaniel, Timullen

Placenames

Barabona on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.